Land's End to John O'Groats

Evening all,

In June I will be cycling from Land's End to John O'Groats in 9 days in aid of Independent Age. I would greatly appreciate if you would sponsor me by going to www.ninedays.co.uk. I'm going for a full user experience with nightly updates and hourly GPS location updates when I'm on the ride.

Thanks to all of you who decide to sponsor us.

Andy

Andy will you be wearing an amusing costume?

I think you should post here again and with updates. Then I might throw some cash at ya :)

Extra if you do it dressed as 'Mr Blobby'

I'll be doing it dressed as a lycra clad cyclist I'm afraid. Mr Blobby would be a hard one to do I think.

The closest I'll get to dressing as Mr Blobby might be this:

ooh, ooh, ooh....I get to post me ole LeJog blog.....
http://kipperonabike.blogspot.com/
You lucky bugger...I can't wait to have another crack at it......tricky to get a whole week or more away from family though.
It would be interesting to try it fixed. Maybe need a month though!?

Good effort. Are you doing the youth-hostel route? Are you doing it on a fixed wheel bicycle?

ooh, ooh, ooh....I get to post me ole LeJog blog.....
http://kipperonabike.blogspot.com/
You lucky bugger...I can't wait to have another crack at it......tricky to get a whole week or more away from family though.
It would be interesting to try it fixed. Maybe need a month though!?

7 and a half days! You're insane. That's quite a result. Thanks for the donation.

Good effort. Are you doing the youth-hostel route? Are you doing it on a fixed wheel bicycle?

We'll be staying with friends along the way aswell as the occassional B&B/youth hostel. Sadly we're not doing it fixed. It'll be geared all the way.

Props rusty! I imagine LeJog will be tough on a geared bike, let alone fixed. But has anyone here completed it fixed? Would love to try it, maybe this summer...

Start with a coast to coast ride if you want to have a go fixed.

Some big miles there kipsy. Can't read it now. Were you on a deadline or something or just 'ride what I can' kinda thing?

EDIT: More respect for actually liking RP and riding 10+ laps of it. Yuk! Guess I need an ipod for those laps if I was to last that long.

Start with a coast to coast ride if you want to have a go fixed.

I have a mate who did a cost to coast (Gretna to Newcastle) on a BMX.

Some big miles there kipsy. Can't read it now. Were you on a deadline or something or just 'ride what I can' kinda thing?
EDIT: More respect for actually liking RP and riding 10+ laps of it. Yuk! Guess I need an ipod for those laps if I was to last that long.

I had meant to take 10 days (100 mile days) but just got carried away. I paid for it later on the ride though. RP is ideal for mindless miles and I can pop home for a cuppa too.

Someone has probably already done it fixed. Putting an easier gear on your bike would help a lot. And 'simply' stick to 50 or 60 miles a day. Not sure if it would be much fun though. I'd recommend getting as many gears on your bike as you can Rusty, and using all of them!

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i am doing it too! fixed... in july i think, have you planned you route yet?

am a little scared about my legs, i just worked out its almost 800,000 pedal revolutions... am also worried about my arse.

I'm doing it for cancer research in September, should be fun. Prob be 11 days for me and definitely not fixed!

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i am doing it too! fixed... in july i think, have you planned you route yet?

am a little scared about my legs, i just worked out its almost 800,000 pedal revolutions... am also worried about my arse.

I think you will really, really, struggle to do it fixed. Hills and wind, hills and wind...

Good luck to you tilover! Doing it geared was harder than I thought it was going to be, but I'd say its doable fixed! I'd recomend perhaps getting a flip flop hub and running either a smaller climbing gear, or a big descending/ flat A road gear on one side. Have you planned the route yet?

See you at the Leeds alley-cat on Sunday

Good luck Tilover. I reckon its doable too, esp. if you take heed of spencerwells advice above, I'd go for the climbing gear though. And of course you have to be touched with a bit of lunacy too.....

How you getting on Rusty? Putting the high miles in??